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Earlier this week, S&P Global Ratings (S&P Global) released a report that removed Central Alabama Water from “CreditWatch Negative” and changed its Outlook to “Stable” while affirming its AA- bond rating, citing efforts made by new management.
Central Alabama Water was vindicated when Circuit Judge Frederic Allen Bolling walked back his prior ruling and dismissed the case brought against them by Woodfin for ending the fluoridation of its water system.
In a hearing on Thursday, Mayor Randall Woodfin and the City of Birmingham lost their latest case against Central Alabama Water.
Less than a year ago, Circuit Court Judge Fred Bolling recused himself from a lawsuit at the request of the Birmingham Water Works Board (BWWB), after lawyers for the utility questioned his ability to be impartial this week he ruled against them.
On Monday, Circuit Judge Frederic Allen Bolling issued a scathing order requiring Central Alabama Water to resume fluoride operations across its entire system, a move that may have catastrophic consequences for the utility's financial well-being and raise costs across the board.
Woodfin criticized the decision of Central Alabama Water to end adding fluoride to water. The issue: two of the system’s three plants were already offline before the new board was created.
Friday afternoon, Central Alabama Water announced that it will no longer add fluoride to its drinking water.
Days after making public the utility's perilous financial and operational situation, and weeks after its bond rating was downgraded, Central Alabama Water has announced a drastic workforce reduction.
A new report released by Central Alabama Water describes the financial and operational catastrophe that the new board inherited from Birmingham Water Works.
During Tuesday's broadcast of Talk 99.5 FM's "Leland Live," Jeff Brumlow, a board member with Central Alabama Water, spoke with fill-in host Apryl Marie Fogel about the new water works board.
S&P Global Ratings lowered its long-term rating to "AA-" from "AA" on Central Alabama Water's fiscal mismanagement, which the board attributes to the former Birmingham Water Works Board.
The new management at Central Alabama Water is continuing its efforts to comply with nationally recognized standards and procedures; this week, that meant conducting its first full-staff random drug tests on Monday.
Within hours of being named chief executive officer of Central Alabama Water, Jeff Thompson placed the management team on leave. On Monday night, that team was replaced, and Thompson was approved to make the interim team permanent.
On Wednesday, Central Alabama Water passed an operation and maintenance budget and a capital budget; the budgets do not include a rate increase for customers.
The Alabama Department of Examiners of Public Accounts released its audit looking into the Birmingham Water Works. The agency looked at records from May 1, 2023, to May 31, 2025. It identified four findings that support the legislative restructuring of the board into a regional board.
Monday afternoon, the board for Central Alabama Water convened to take up a few administrative tasks when Birmingham Mayor Randall Woodfin came to address the board.
There have been clear lines drawn in the sand between the two appointees from Birmingham and the rest of the Board since the Birmingham Water Works board became Central Alabama Water.
Jeff Thompson was named the first CEO of Central Alabama Water effective immediately following a vote by the board on Thursday morning. The vote, which gave Thompson a two-year contract with an annual salary of $446,000, was approved by four members of the board for the hire, two against and one member voting present.
Wednesday afternoon, the Central Alabama Water Board announced that it will hold a special-called meeting on Thursday to retain Jeffrey F. Thompson as chief executive officer of Central Alabama Water.
On Monday, Birmingham Mayor Randall Woodfin took to social media to address the rumored frontrunner for chief executive officer for Central Alabama Water, Jeff Thompson.
On Wednesday, Central Alabama Water settled one of the pending lawsuits against them in part by offering a new contract to the Birmingham Water Works Board’s former attorney, Mark Parnell.
Earlier this week, experts provided an update on the Lake Purdy Dam and Reservoir located in northern Shelby County to the board of Central Alabama Water. The update, which emphasized that the dam is safe, came as media reports clearly aimed to undermine the new board, leading to questions about the insurance policies in effect and the new board's efforts to review the original plan, budgeted at $28 million.
Birmingham Mayor Randall Woodfin is threatening to hold up Central Alabama Water’s (CAW) ability to make critical repairs to its infrastructure, sending a letter to the Central Alabama Water Board that puts conditions on the City of Birmingham’s approval of pending loans.
The new Central Alabama Water Board announced a special meeting for Tuesday to discuss where they are in the process of hiring a new CEO and consider retaining two consultants to examine Lake Purdy Dam.
Central Alabama Water (CAW) is ready to defend itself and ratepayers against the Birmingham Water Works' former attorney, Mark Parnell, as he seeks to reinstate his controversial contract signed the night before the new board was created.
In a lawsuit filed by Mark Parnell, the former lawyer for the Birmingham Water Works Board, he takes aim at the legislature’s reconstitution of the board and their motivation behind it, saying that his now canceled multi-million dollar contract was “to ensure institutional continuity,” and to prevent senior leadership from leaving as a result of "political chaos".
At this week’s Central Alabama Water meeting, the board voted to reduce the amount paid to their public relations firm, Direct Communications, from $38,000 per month to $18,000 per month.